"Looking for who exactly? Everyone is gathered here already!"
Just when Berry screamed with a thin line of tears flooding over her cheeks, a familiar voice appeared from behind, startling all of them. And then the entire team turned to see William's silhouette appearing from behind a few thick trees.
"You… I swear to God I want nothing more than beating the hell out of you right now!"
*Fwoosh!*
Just as Ibra exclaimed in happiness, not anger, expressing what everyone here felt by William's return, a figure flashed fast like a bullet, ending up hugging the body of William with both arms.
*Sob!* *Sob!*
And without any warning, Berry's thin line of tears turned into a flood that even soaked William's clothes wet.
"Easy there," William felt something was amiss by just Berry's intense reaction for his appearance. He lost count and feeling of time after failing in his attempt, only waking up when the sun was on the move to its bed at west.
He knew he slept for a long time, and this was something he couldn't avoid. After all, failing this time came with few more severe consequences than before.
First, he felt like his spirit power was resisting him! He could only control up to six hundred points of it, leaving behind one hundred points as if they never existed.
At the same time, he felt like his body just got a hell beat up! Even when he drank five droplets of the magical potion he had, things didn't end up as what he quite expected.
He knew he had to give his body time to recuperate and heal, not rushing things out. And that gave him a clear warning to not try this out until he arrived at the silver rank doorsteps.
"What happened?" William moved his eyes among everyone while feeling like he was responsible for this weird situation.
"You happened!" Ibra motioned his glaive towards him before adding, "let me hit him once, just once and I'll leave him for all of you next."
"What do you take me for? A punching bag? I'm your boss!"
"You vanished for one whole day and didn't leave any message behind! Even when we tried to get to you using Message Papers, all we got was nothing! What a trustable leader you are!" Ibra harrumphed, while others felt like there was something wrong between these two.
They were all sickly worried over William, but Ibra seemed to get a bite or something of William at this moment. Which was something quite weird. Instead of being happy about his return, Ibra wanted to stir trouble with William.
They couldn't get it as Ibra kept the little argument he had with William and didn't tell anyone about it.
So even when Ibra moved his eyes around, asking for others to step in and support him, none even showed a sign of approval or support towards his words nor attitude.
"Stop causing trouble already," William could see easily through the intentions of this troublemaker, "tell me, what happened when I was away?"
"First tell us where you were all this time!"
"I said drop it already," William rolled his eyes, then turned towards Berry, who was calmly lying in his embrace without issuing a single sound. The more he looked at her face, the more he knew something terrible must have happened when he wasn't here.
"Tell me, what happened when I was away?" so he turned his eyes towards the other vice leaders of his.
"We just got worried, went all the way around looking for you," Sara didn't speak up before to support Ibra as she felt there was some sort of unknown history between these two. However, that didn't mean she totally forgave William for his sudden absence, "we went outside, fought against scary monsters and got lots of wounds."
"Hmm… You are indeed quite courageous, and loyal," William took this as a joke. And before Sara or anyone else would say anything, he touched his ring, took enough potions out, enough to heal everyone, "first take these and cure our wounds before anything else… Don't tell me you got all these wounds without killing a single monster out there."
William noticed how many and ugly the wounds most of his team members got. Almost all of the members below silver grade got wounded, with the white ones suffering the most out of it.
"Ahem…" And when he just made a joke about it, he couldn't help but find out that everyone's face changed and dropped. He cleared his throat, feeling like he hit the mark this time precisely without even intending to, "at least tell me you gained intel about the type of monsters waiting for us out there."
"We met ten different monsters," Ibra took the lead of explaining things for him, "let me draw them out for you."
"Not you again!" William got instantly scared the moment he heard what Ibra said, "let anyone else do it. Come on, anyone can tell or draw me the shapes of these monsters."
"But… I already drew one for you and you recognised it right on the spot!"
"Don't even mention it!" William glared in warning towards Ibra, recalling that dude's close to a puzzle drawing that didn't help at all. "Anyone else?" he moved his eyes around, looking for another person to do this task than Ibra.
? "Sorry dude, I'm going to do it in your stead," John cleared his throat, seemingly more terrified of angering Ibra than answering William's request.
"Do it then," Ibra crossed his arms, leant over his glaive, "I want to see who is that genius artist to draw a better drawing of monsters than I."
"Don't bother with him," William didn't know from where this dude's confidence came from, "just draw what you can, and explain with words to make me imagine them better."
Since his last torturing experience with Ibra, William decided that just depending on drawing wasn't going to work.
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